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12:01 PM
@G.Bergeron note that there's a lot of water under the bridge with that one. the Theoretical Physics SE was launched, lived, and died since then. See e.g. stackoverflow.blog/2012/04/when-a-site-grows-quiet.
 
@EmilioPisanty Okay, I will, after catching some sleep... It's 7AM here and I have not yet slept...
 
I don't think it is a good q - here's 2 loosely related things that have different interpretations. Discuss.
There are interpretations of Bladerunner. Is that the same idea as interpretations in QM? I mean, the film doesn’t change depending on whichever interpretation you favor.
 
Come on, probability theory is important to QM
It may seem like a trivial question when you've worked with QM a lot, but I think it is relevant to ask if the interpretational issues have anything to do with the one in prob. theory
In any case, I don't think it is a such a trivial question. Does QM reflects a partial, incomplete description of reality or is it just really raw frequentist probability
Those issues are not settled and I think there is possibly a nice connection here.
 
Yeah maybe I was harsh
 
hello everyone
 
12:15 PM
Hidden variables interpretations would suggest a more Bayesian interpretation of the probabilities while Copenhagen would be more closely related to a frequentist interpretation
 
Especially since some interpretations are explicitly Bayesian, e.g. QBism of whatever they call it.
 
Actually I'm gonna try and think of a nice way to put those considerations as an answer
 
That's true too, about hidden variables. I think the question is just poorly phrased
 
On this, I think we agree. It's even worse then poorly phrased, it kind of actively drives me away, probably having to do with TBBT reference
@heather hello
 
Using experimental languages like Rust is kind of a pain
Every breath I take something breaks
(thanks Police)
 
12:20 PM
...and finally, I think the real interesting part is how would that relate to the different ontological content of the different interpretations.
why Rust?
actually I am quite the procrastinator when in face of a learning curves, especially with anything related to computers... I need a project with a deadline to learn a new programming language!
 
Because I wanted to tinker with it, seemed like an interesting language
Good performance, compiled, C-like syntax at times, modern, very safe
But you know how tools for Python or C just work? Not the case
 
Hmm... I tend to do pure C, Python and now javascript because web
 
rustfmt, the code formatting tool, will fail on multiple occasions
I do Python and C++
C on my kernel project
And I hate on JS on my free time
 
with web things, I always feel like a monkey with scraps of paper and stick glue
 
The web sucks
 
12:27 PM
Yeah, to many trends and fashion-like things
 
It's meme computer science
 
But you seem like a more serious programmer than I will ever be... In that case, exploration is good
LOL!
 
Well, thank you :)
 
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Q: Can quantum string go at light speed?

Lucas MeelhuijsenI am working on a theory, which relies heavely on string particles going faster or at light speed, so I was wandering if anyone here knows if sting (wihtout frequency so one dimensional) can go faster than light. I figured it would because of the one dimension thing, but maybe there is someone ...

 
I do computer engineering, so it's a big part of my life
 
12:30 PM
Yeah, more a physics/math guy... I deal with computers because I want approximate Turing machines to do clerical work for me
Also, mathematica can be nice. I did my first paper all by hand and I'm not doing that again
 
approximate?
 
well I don't think my macbook have anything resembling an infinite tape...
 
Sure, but apart from that it's still a turing machine
 
yes
 
And also the infinite tape, or doubly infinite depending on the description, is just a detail. Having it finite but very large works just as well for the most part
 
12:35 PM
The point was that I like computers for them doing what I'm not good at (like most humans) and want them in my life, but also are a source of major ***
It was more of a poor witty joke
 
I was just being anal for the sake of it :P
 
Meaning I'm not passionate about programming but it's a pretty useful tool
 
Idk also, mathematicians are weird, maybe you had some not turing-complete setup
 
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Q: How has the show The Big Bang theory affected Physics?

BCLCHas it given a bad impression of physics or academia like physicists have way too much time? Has it in some way increased respect, research or funding for Physics? (It's not a kids' show so I highly doubt there are kids/young teenagers who get into physics/engineering from watching TBBT the way ...

do we have a sociology SE?
 
really?
 
12:40 PM
What the hell is with this guy and The Big Bang Theory
 
search doesn't turn up any sociology SE
shame :<
 
LOOOL
 
I have no patience today, I woke up too early
 
what time?
 
7:30 AM
For the sake of the good lord
it was horrible
 
12:42 PM
(btw, liked the sarcastic comment)
 
You know I'm always up for being just mildly a dick :P
 
@BernardMeurer uh...6:00 am 0_0
 
but why?
 
Why what?
 
school...*::sighs::*
 
12:44 PM
why 7:30, I'm still not in bed... it's 7:43AM here! I guess I'm a night owl
school at 6:00?
 
bus comes @ 7-ish and i need to get ready (ahem, chat on hbar)
 
Because due to, ehm, unregulated activities in my bathroom I broke the drain on my shower, and the guy came to fix it at 9, and I didn't want to be there, so I woke up that early and came to uni to sit around and play metroid
 
re-LOL
 
This Game Boy was the best thing I bought since ever
 
bus? 7? Good perseverance
Mine decayed right after high-school
 
12:47 PM
I walk to uni
 
that would be around 17 y.o.
No, I was talking to heather
But is the game boy really the best or the worst thing you bought ever?
and you got me curious about the unregulated activities
 
Best, it's awesome
 
how many hours where killed?
 
On the shower? Or on the Game Boy?
 
huh... both?
but I meant with the games
 
12:50 PM
I don't know, and I don't know but not that many
 
I never play except when I touch a game and then it's a binge until a few days later when I get bored and feel like crap and do not touch games for a year or two.
 
I like the gameboy
 
Only time I touched that was with the old system and was drooling over the little camera cartridge game.
 
I've been wanting to get that!
 
The Game Boy Color (ゲームボーイカラー, Gēmu Bōi Karā), referred to as GBC, is a handheld game console manufactured by Nintendo, which was released on October 21, 1998 in Japan and was released in November of the same year in international markets. It is the successor of the Game Boy. The Game Boy Color, as suggested by the name, features a color screen, but no backlight. It is slightly thicker and taller than the Game Boy Pocket, which is a redesigned Game Boy released in 1996. As with the original Game Boy, it has a custom 8-bit processor somewhat related to a Zilog Z80 central processing unit (CPU)....
The Game Boy Camera, released as Pocket Camera (ポケットカメラ) in Japan, is an official Nintendo accessory for the handheld Game Boy gaming console and was released on September 17, 1998 in Japan, which ceased manufacture in late 2002. It is compatible with all of the Game Boy platforms (with the exception of Game Boy Micro). The camera can take 256×224 (down scaled to half resolution on the unit with anti-aliasing), black & white digital images using the 4-color palette of the Game Boy system. It interfaced with the Game Boy Printer, which utilized thermal paper to print any saved images, making...
And then it was confiscated by the principal of my elementary school. At the end of the year, we asked for it and it had... disappear
You really want this old game?
 
12:57 PM
I do!
It's so cool!
I want the printer too
to take selfies
 
Wow, I'm just seeing I could make money selling those on ebay, same with NES game cartridge
 
WAIT
YOU HAVE ONE
GIVE IT TO ME
 
Yeah... I wanted the printer but it was getting hard to get at that time
yes
 
Also if you have NES Tetris I'll take it
 
Duck hunt also with the little orange gun
and tetris with the abherrent music
 
12:59 PM
Tetris is my favourite game ever
Specially the NES version
 
LOL I worked on that project for Burning Man: FireTetris
It was kind of awesome
 
Lol
Tetris is great
 
Tetris drives me nuts
 
Tetris on fire 3 stories high!!!
 
Then marry it
That's how you know it's the one
 
1:02 PM
@BernardMeurer, ???
oh...nvm, I get the joke
 
:)
I had faith in you from the beginning
 
I'm getting used to your humor =P
 
NOT GOOD
:P
 
I didn't
 
@G.Bergeron It's just a subtle reference to the fact that we often love that which drives us nuts
For reference I do not recall dating a girl that didn't drive me absolutely insane at times
Although it doesn't take much, the jump from me to insanity is a short one
 
1:04 PM
That's why I don't really date
 
It's lovely
 
Let's see, I got Shadowgate classic, Super Mario Bros deluxe, pokemon gold version, the camera thingy and... PONG
Been years I opened that drawer
 
pong =)
 
I was told so
 
POKEMON!
 
1:06 PM
pong is great
 
Pong on gameboy?
 
yes
a teal gameboy at that
 
I need a gameboy advance :P
 
never had a gameboy...kind've want to get one sometime
 
I think there was also the snake game and pacman on that cartridge
 
1:07 PM
It's uber cheap on ebay
 
Yeah... but that was the old stuff
 
Go sell girl-scout cookies and get one
 
I guess it's better now.
 
I'll buy the cookies
Holy crap I want some girlscout cookies now
 
I think they even have #D something
NO! Girlscout make me feel bad when I don't buy
 
1:08 PM
That's why you always buy
 
1. I'm not in girlscouts 2. My parents won't allow me to get one; I have the money
 
It's like last time there was a scout Christmass choral outside
won't allow? why?
 
I dunno
gtg, the school bus calls
 
@heather I didn't expect you to be, the cookies just came to my mind
 
I didn't have money on me and then they came over with a money pot...
okey
It was too much, I felt in stupid soap movie
 
1:10 PM
Back in middle school all I had was an i686 pc and some coins
and a Game Boy color
 
what is middle school actually?
We don't have that here
 
My father had got the 686 for him, but couldn't use it so he gave it to me
and we even had internet!!
 
We where a mac family
 
No macs back in Brazil
 
1:12 PM
I'd like to have an Apple II
 
It seems you want all my childhood crap :p
 
Probably
 
I have a performa on a pile beside me
 
WHAAAAAAAAAAT
 
N64? Perfect dark?
 
1:13 PM
Meh I don't care for nintendo consoles after the SNES
 
Actually there are 7 computer junk around me now...
I want to consolidate the data at some point, later...
Probably never will, but you made me think that waiting a bit more those antiquities might be fun to sell on ebay
you think it's worth it?
 
Performas are pretty cheap AFAIK
An Apple II will run you a pretty penny
 
Meh, better luck next time
not sure where that guy is now though...
 
GameBoy Camera if in good condition can be sold at a good price too
 
Still working
I just discovered a stash of magick cards
 
1:22 PM
 
this, I never had
Only played the metroid primes on gamecube
 
Which I think was the bes game ever!
 
The picture is weird, it's pristine irl
 
it looks so
 
1:23 PM
I've heard Super Metroid is the best one
 
bah
Shit, the cards are almost all in French, it's gonna be worth a lot less i figure
 
Yeah :/
 
...back when I didn't know how to speak in English
So what brings you to physics.SE
 
yeah
there's nobody else it seems
 
1:28 PM
The people in this room help make me less stupid
And they're all super nice and helpful
That's just it really
so I'm always hanging around here
 
First time around for me
 
I'm just a scrawny undergrad
 
I just burnt through the night because of international collaborations and now I have a class in 2 hours
 
Grad life is tough
 
bah... was worst in many ways as an undergrad
I am to blame alone in this
So there are actual physics discussions here?
 
1:34 PM
@G.Bergeron Sometimes, when we don't have anything else to talk about ;)
 
Like all night long... :p
 
night?
It's 3 pm here :P
 
8:35 am here
...okay all night long, for me
Has the chat always been there
?
 
@G.Bergeron Yes
Well, I'm not sure about the very beginning of the site, but it has been around for years by now
 
Ok, seems like a nice place... first time around
 
1:41 PM
@EmilioPisanty Man, that user really liked their The Big Bang Theory reference, didn't they?
 
Yeah that was a funny moment
Especially when that second question popped up
 
Ugh
Can't count the times that blasted show has caused people to respond with "So you're like Sheldon?" when I tell them I do theoretical physics.
 
@ACuriousMind OH
Watch the new movie "The Return"
Or whatever it's called
I dare you to not cringe
DARE
 
Saw that but seemed like meh
really meh
 
@BernardMeurer 1. I can't find a "new" "The Return" movie" . 2. I watch Sci-Fi for the Fi, not the Sci, so unless the plot is really horrible, I won't cringe
 
1:47 PM
@ACuriousMind It's bad Sci-Fi, that's the issue
 
It's called Arrival, I brainfarted
They want to decript an alien language
who do they call?
A linguist, very good
and
a theoretical physicist LOLOLOLOL
 
reviews seem good
thanks for the idea
 
I hated that movie, lol
it's so tacky
I have a weird taste for cinema though
 
what is tacky in this context
?
 
1:53 PM
"I've had my head tilted at the starts since I was a little kid; but what amazed me the most wasn't meeting them [aliens], it was meeting you [the linguist]"
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
BLERGH
 
Jim
@SirCumference I'm here now
 
I almost threw up hearing that
 
I can relate
 
Oh, so it's a rom-com disguised as sci-fi? :P
 
When he started the sentence I literally was saying "please don't do it, please don't"
and then bam he did
@ACuriousMind It's just ridiculous
 
1:54 PM
@Jim I think we resolved the issue but if you're bored you could go back and check that I didn't absolutely botch my cosmology up there ;)
 
the aliens give us a language that is based on these round squiggles and when you learn it you can see the future
 
There are hazmat suits... I will like the movie
 
...did you just spoil the movie? :P
 
@ACuriousMind No, I protected your brain from heavy damage
 
LOL
 
1:56 PM
The movie was shit, holy mother
 
But there seem to be plenty of hazmat containment material
 
Maybe that's where they stored the quality of the movie
OUT OF SIGHT
I can't wait until I grow old and grumpy
 
Now you're young and grumpy, what's the difference?
 
No, no weird badtrip in hazmat suits with imbecile military sergeant wanting to kill it with fire seems like a fantastic overused mix I will enjoy
Don't you enjoy films about experimental virus getting release and all and all
 

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